EU questions YouTube, Snapchat, TikTok on their AI recommendation systems

The European Commission has sent a request for information on the design and operation of recommender systems to YouTube, Snapchat, and TikTok. Recommender systems are machine learning algorithms that use data to suggest items that a user might be interested in.

However, under the Digital Services Act (DSA), the EU’s landmark content moderation regulation, the Commission stated that these are at the “heart” of the systemic risks that platforms present to users.

In a statement released on Wednesday (Sep.